Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a good week. I have been busy busy busy! I haven't gotten much knitting time done, but when I have, I've worked on the sweater...WHICH I FINISHED!!!!!!!!! I'm hoping it will be blocked (and dry of course) by Thursday night, but if not, you will get a picture of it on Friday on the blocking mats. LOL

That said, I did have time to cast on a new sock. That's right...a new sock. I'm so original! It's my March Harry Potter sock with my knitting group. This time we're going to be doing Devil Snare Socks. I cast on a little early, because I was so excited about the Candy Skein March colorway, Leprechaun Lollipop, and it is perfect for this pattern! We decided to go with this pattern this month because it was a lot different than the other HP sock patterns by Erica Lueder. It has a lace pattern running down the front of the sock, and the rest is stockinette. We'll see how it goes. :)

Other than that, I have nothing to show. I'm going to start swatching for my next cardigan, the Abalone, today! I can't wait. I bought the yarn for it on Thanksgiving weekend and it's just been sitting in my stash waiting to become a beautiful sweater!

That's it for me. Have a great day!

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Friday, February 24, 2012

I'm going to make this quick. My internet is going in and out tonight and I don't want to not have a post up for you guys! No FO for me today, as I figured. I am ALMOST done with my sweater and you will see it next week 100%! I can't wait to bind off and show you all the finished project. It's been a long time coming.

I hope you all have a great weekend! For those interested, I'll be posting the March '12 Candy Skein Sock Club colorway on Monday!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Hi everyone!!! I hope you're all doing great. I've been very busy lately, which makes time FLY by. I can't believe it's another WIPW!

I've been working on just about everything here and there so a ton doesn't look like it's gotten done on each piece of knitting, but it has!

I've worked a little on the Time Traveler socks. Here's a picture but you can't really tell I'm sure. LOL Still, I thought I'd take a picture of them since you haven't seen them for awhile. You may remember, this will be my first after thought heel. You can see the orange yarn in the brown stripe that is the placeholder for those stitches.

I've also worked on my Rhombi sweater and I PROMISE you that it will be finished for FO Friday next week. I don't think I can finish and block it for this Friday. I'm super excited and nervous to finish it. I had been putting it off, not wanting to ruin it. For some reason I had this mental block about picking up the stitches for the front and neck. I'll be starting that today! My husband this weekend said, "what happened to the cardigan?" When I told him why I hadn't been working on it, he said, "you just need to work on it. It's your first sweater. If it's not perfect that's okay." So, when we got home from running errands, I got it out and started working on it again. He's right, it doesn't need to be perfect. Some knitters' first sweaters aren't even wearable! :) Since I'm so close to being finished, I won't post a picture so that you can see it when it's finished.

This is a new project for me. As I mentioned on Friday, I cast on new socks! These are my first pair of Cookie A socks. I've LOVED her patterns but they all seem pretty hard since I haven't tried cables yet. I got the book Knit. Sock. Love by Cookie A and realized that the pattern Monkey isn't cables! So I started it with a size US 2 needles. The ribbing turned out HUGE for some reason. I'm sure not if it's because of the twisted stitches. I frogged it and then used a US 1, but now I think they're too small. I'm not sure what to do at this point. Do I keep going? I'm using the Candy Skein January Monthly Sock Club colorway, Arctic Mint.

That's it for me. Have a great day!

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

I'm very excited to announce that I have added a new color to the Candy Skein line! I thought it would be fun to dye the new color in three different bases so you can see how the same dye takes to the different fibers.

I bring to you Candy Skein's new color, Blue Snow Cone. It's a gorgeous light blue with small specks of lavender that is breathtaking, especially in the Delicious series which has a purple/pink halo.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Hi everyone and happy belated Valentine's day! I hope you had a great day with friends, family and loved ones! I was hard at work on my taxes and other non-fun grunt work that you must do when owning your own business. We're off to the accountant on Thursday and I won't have to worry about it again after that for a little while.

Today's WIPW is a little different for me, as you can see in the above picture. This is a sneaky way for me to show something awesome I found at the antique mall while also sharing it as a work in progress.

What in the world is it, you ask? Good question!

It's an old vintage zipper holder that you would find at a fabric store. It has different slots for different sized/lengths of zippers. I loved it at first sight, but had NO clue what I would do with it.

So what am I going to do with it?

My husband is brilliant. Really, he is. I can't take credit for his idea, so I just wanted to put that out there before telling you what this vintage zipper holder has in store and why it's even on my WIPW post.

I need to do some serious cleaning to it, as you can tell. There's some rust (that's putting it lightly) that I'm going to have to remove and then re-paint the whole thing. I went to the hardware store and bought everything I need (at least for now) to make it into....

Drum roll please....

A mini skein display holder when I have a booth at fiber shows!

BRILLIANT, RIGHT?!?

I hope to have this baby look good as new, with a fun Candy Skein logo on the face plate in no time (or when I can find time before the middle of April). Each slot can hold mini skeins in different colorways!! I'm so excited about it, I can't even explain to you. It was a little pricey, even after getting 10% knocked off, but I knew I had to have it after some great debate. It's one of those things that you know if you walk away, you won't stop thinking about it. Then when you go back? Of course it will be gone. It's not every day you see one of these.

Anyway, that's it for me this WIPW. My knitting is going okay, but the items don't look very different so I didn't want to bore you. I also just wanted to show off my new project. ;)

I know I promised the new Candy Skein colorway, and don't worry, I will deliver Thursday! Be sure to check it out!

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Friday, February 10, 2012

Happy Friday to you all! I'm going to keep this short, because the more time I spend writing this, the less I get done on my socks. That's right, I'm trying to finish today so I might have a chance to show them to you. I'll keep my fingers crossed and we'll just call this a placeholder for now.

I do have a new Candy Skein colorway to debut as well, so check back later today or tomorrow for that as well! I'll give you a hint. If you like blue, you'll love the new color!

EDIT: I FINISHED!!!! It's 6pm here on Friday, so I DID finish on Friday my time. I"ll take better pictures when it's not so dark, but here are a few pics to prove that I finished. All share all the details next Friday on the project.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Hi everyone! I'm back to being healthy, minus the cough and raspy voice! It's good to be myself again. I haven't been working on my sweater (I swear I will finish it very soon!), but I have been busy knitting.

As you may remember (if you've read the past month's WIPW posts), I didn't have much success with my knitting group's Harry Potter sock challenge for January. I did the leg of the first sock and stopped. I'm not sure why, but I just was not feeling it. While I will finish the set, I decided to move onto February's socks to not fall too far behind. Funny enough, for some reason February's pattern is flying off the needles. I've finished one sock and am at the heel flap of the 2nd. I should hopefully have a full pair of socks on Friday to share for FO Friday, or at least at some point this week. I'm not sure I'll be able to finish for the actual morning of FO Friday, but we'll see. This pattern is Petunia Dursley's Double Eyelet Socks by Erica Lueder and I'm using Knitter's Brewing Company Sock-aholic Sweet yarn in Sweet Lavender.

That's what I've worked on. I haven't been able to work much on my Time Traveler socks, so I'm sure that will be next week!

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Friday, February 3, 2012

Making this short and sweet today, as it's late and I'm tired. I wanted to thank you all for the well wishes. I'm feeling much better and am on the mend. I just need to get rid of this nasty cough and I'll be right as rain.

Sadly I have nothing to show as I still haven't touched the cardigan. I'm sure you all understand! I am sailing on the February Harry Potter socks though! WOOT!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Hi all. Happy February! This is going to be short, because since Sunday I've been really really sick. I haven't done anything except sleep and lay around watching good "sick" movies like Runaway Bride, American President and Love Actually. Don't you just love the Romantic Comedies when sick? They're my favorite. :)

Obviously with being so sick, I haven't worked on my sweater. Instead, it's sock mania in my house! Not only do I still have the January HP challenge pair on the needles, but I've started two more! Seriously nuts, right?

So here's the first pair:

My Time Traveler Felici socks, because what's better than being sick with some Doctor Who knitting to make you feel better? I'm doing these very plain vanilla, with one catch. I started with just 10 rows of k3 p1 ribbing and then the stockinette leg. The catch? I'm going to try my first afterthought heel!! Cool, right? You might be able to see the pumpkin color Delicious fingering I've inserted into the sock where the heel will go. For those of you who have done this before, how deep did you make your heel once you were ready to do so? Did you do 3, 5 or more stockinette rounds before starting the decreases? The one thing people don't really talk about with the afterthought heel is if the measurement from where you place the heel. What I mean is, if you were to picture it on a normal heel flap/turn/gusset, would it be basically where the gusset decreases are? Am I making sense to those who are not sick? LOL I think I may be giving this too much thought, but I'm just trying to make sure it won't be A) too tight and B) long enough in the foot so I want to measure from the right place on another one of my socks.

My next socks are the February HP Challenge socks. For those of you who didn't read about the ones I was working on in January are probably wondering what the HP challenge I'm talking about. A few ladies in my knitting group and I decided to knit all of Erica Lueder's Harry Potter sock patterns this year. There are around 11 of them I believe, so we're going to do one per month, and then either do a different pattern for the 12th, or do one of them twice. We'll see when we get there. This month, we've decided to knit Petunia Dursley's Double Eyelet Socks. This is a fun basic lace pattern. I decided to use my one skein of Knitter's Brewing Company Sock-a-holic Sweet yarn in Sweet Lavender. It's a pretty yarn that is 60% merino, 15% nylon, 15% bamboo and 10% silk. The bamboo seems to give it a cool feel and the silk gives it a shine. This is the first time I've used this yarn, so I'll let you know how I like it when I get a little further into the sock/pattern.

That's it for me today. I hope you have a great rest of the week. If you're awaiting a Candy Skein shipment from me, I hope to be well enough to get to the post office later in the week.

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About Me

I started crocheting in December '09 and creating amigurumi around March of '10. I've taken on knitting, starting in November of '10. I'm seriously addicted to buying yarn and all things crochet. I'm the owner of the indie dyed yarn company, Candy Skein